August Nörmiger (ca. 15601613) was a German composer and court organist in Dresden. He was born and died in
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...
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The main source for Nörmiger's compositions is the manuscript Organ tabulature "Tabulaturbuch auff dem Instrumente", which he compiled for
Sophie von Sachsen in 1598. He gives few indications as to his sources.
Recordings
* ''Mattasin oder Toden Tanz'' 1598 (an example of
Danse macabre
The ''Danse Macabre'' (; ) (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death.
The ''Danse Macabre'' consists of the dead, or a personification o ...
) on Ars Moriendi
Huelgas Ensemble
The Huelgas Ensemble is a Belgian early music group formed by the Flemish conductor Paul Van Nevel in 1971. The group's performance and extensive discography focuses on Renaissance polyphony. The name of the ensemble refers to a manuscript of poly ...
, dir.
Paul Van Nevel
Paul Van Nevel (born 4 February 1946) is a Belgian conductor, musicologist and art historian. In 1971 he founded the Huelgas Ensemble, a choir dedicated to polyphony from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Van Nevel is known for hunting out li ...
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* 4 dances ''Tantz Von Gott Will Ich Nicht Lassen'' etc. on Sacred music of the Renaissance;
Monte
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Italy
* Monte Bregagno
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* Montefalcione
Portugal
* Monte ...
,
Lassus
Orlande de Lassus ( various other names; probably – 14 June 1594) was a composer of the late Renaissance. The chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school, Lassus stands with Giovanni Pierluigi da Pales ...
,
White
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. by
Huelgas Ensemble
The Huelgas Ensemble is a Belgian early music group formed by the Flemish conductor Paul Van Nevel in 1971. The group's performance and extensive discography focuses on Renaissance polyphony. The name of the ensemble refers to a manuscript of poly ...
, dir.
Paul Van Nevel
Paul Van Nevel (born 4 February 1946) is a Belgian conductor, musicologist and art historian. In 1971 he founded the Huelgas Ensemble, a choir dedicated to polyphony from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Van Nevel is known for hunting out li ...
(LP CD)"Seon" 60705. 1978
* ''Churf. Sachs. Witwen Erster Mummerey Tanz'' (1598) and ''Der Mohren Auftzugkh'' (1598). Organ tuned to
quarter-comma meantone
Quarter-comma meantone, or -comma meantone, was the most common meantone temperament in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and was sometimes used later. In this system the perfect fifth is flattened by one quarter of a syntonic comma (81:80 ...
(pure thirds) temperament, played by Andrew Pink.
''Ein guter neuer Dantz: Renaissance dance music: 1577-1629''
online resource, accessed 21 February 2017.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Normiger, August
1560s births
1613 deaths
German classical composers
Renaissance composers
German male classical composers